Key Press Not Working
MRAB
python at mrabarnett.plus.com
Thu Nov 2 23:11:37 EDT 2017
On 2017-11-03 02:40, brandon wallace wrote:
>
>
> I am trying to catch a key press but it is not working. How can I fix this code? There is no error message so there is no error message to do a search on.
> I am using Python3.5 64-bit inside the terminal.
>
> while True:
> key = input("Enter a letter: ")
> if key == ord('q'):
> break
>
> The loop keeps running even though I have pressed the letter 'q'.
>
It's waiting for you to press Enter.
'input' is for inputting a line. It returns a string.
>>> s = input("Enter a line: ")
Enter a line: foo
>>> s
'foo'
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